While the franchise started losing its appeal as time passed, Disney still found massive success with its Pirates of the Caribbean movies. 

Johnny Depp deserves a huge amount of the credit for that, but Amber Heard's allegations of domestic violence and a series of messy court battles led to Disney scrapping plans for a sixth movie. Depp's Hollywood career was put on hold - he's since mounted an attempted comeback - and the studio went back to the drawing board with the franchise. 

It's unclear exactly who is developing the next iteration, though the expectation has been that the spotlight will shift to a new group of pirates in place of the iconic Captain Jack Sparrow.

There have been rumblings about Margot Robbie leading a reboot for at least the past few years. Ayo Edebiri, Austin Butler, and Hailee Steinfeld, meanwhile, are among those who have supposedly been eyed...